The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.